On a night when Stanford's Rose Bowl champions were honored at halftime, the Cardinal basketball team could have used some of the football team's finishing skills.

In the end, the Cardinal had no better luck against Washington than the football team did in the fall, losing 65-60 at Maples Pavilion on Saturday night to fall to 1-3 in the Pac-12.

"It's very disappointing obviously," forward Dwight Powell said. "We have high hopes and high expectations for ourselves. But we're going to bounce back."

During the celebration of the football team, a few players and coaches were given cracks at shooting from halfcourt, and offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton brought down the house by swishing his set shot.

The Cardinal (10-7) weren't nearly as accurate from long range. They hit 3 of 17 three-point shots.

Their biggest miss, though, was a much shorter shot in the final minute. Trailing 62-60, the Cardinal called a timeout with 30 seconds left. Powell wound up with an off-balance jumper that had no chance.

"I thought he had the opportunity to spin back and get a little better layup in the lane," coach Johnny Dawkins said. "We put the ball in our best player's hands at the time."

The Huskies (11-5, 3-0) took away any chance to hit Chasson Randle on a backdoor cut on the play. Powell could have waited for Aaron Bright to get open for a three on a screen, but he opted to go to the basket, where Aziz N'Diaye, a 7-foot center from Senegal, was lurking.

"I think he made him alter the shot a little," Dawkins said.

C.J. Wilcox, who led the Huskies with 27 points, grabbed the miss, was fouled and made 1 of 2 free throws. Bright missed a contested jumper with 13 seconds left, and Vallejo native Desmond Simmons grabbed his game-high 13th rebound.

"We had opportunities, but we didn't finish plays down the stretch," said Dawkins, whose team is 1-9 against Washington in his five seasons. "Guys have to learn how to do that."

Powell, who led Stanford with 19 points, said, "We need to play tougher. They played tougher for 40 minutes. We need to get those 50-50 balls and rebound."

Randle blamed "the little things down the stretch that we didn't do, whether it was getting open on the wing, screening for one another, blocking out or getting the loose ball. We didn't do it tonight."

Washington, last season's Pac-12 regular-season champion, had pounded Cal 62-47 on Wednesday but had a much tougher time with the Cardinal. Neither team led by more than four points in the first half, which had nine ties and 10 lead changes.

Randle didn't start for the first time this season because he was late for a shoot-around earlier in the day. Six minutes into the game, he came in and scored 13 of his 16 points in the first half.